[ASH WEDNESDAY] The Ascension Lenten Companion: Walking with Jesus to Jerusalem
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024
- God wants to give you more. How will you respond this Lent?
Has your relationship with God grown stale? Has it lost its spark? Are you plagued by a particular sin? Something you can’t shake? Are you just tired of the day-to-day grind of your life? These all show that God wants to give you more.
This Lent, experience deeper peace and healing as Fr. Mark Toups immerses you in Christ’s final journey to Jerusalem, inviting you to reflect on Jesus' suffering and death, and inspiring you to celebrate in his resurrection.
During this Lent, you will fall in love with Jesus, learning to see with his eyes and love with his heart. More than just a journal, The Ascension Lenten Companion will guide you, day by day, to an encounter with the person of Christ and help you arrive at Easter transformed by God’s love.
Following the same award-winning format that hundreds of thousands of Catholics have enjoyed through past Lent and Advent reflections, The Ascension Lenten Companion will lead you inward to experience deeper prayer and renewed focus in this powerful season.
Follow along with The Ascension Lenten Companion: (Year B) E-Book (www.ascensionp...) a daily prayer resource that will help readers discover what it is that God is offering them this Lent.
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I luv listening to Fr Toup reflection
Yes. I’d be interested!
Heavenly Father, I come to you asking for your blessings as a single mom. I’m raising my children with courage, despite the challenges I face. My sons both are special needs. Lord as I struggle to pay my rent every month and as I struggle to buy groceries for my children. I ask that you bless me with your wisdom and guidance, as I navigate parenthood on my own.
Praying for you and your family.🙂
You remain in my prayer journal, where I offer your family up to Jesus at all times ❤
God bless you and your family in your struggles. Remember at the end of our journey our reward is waiting.
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Thank you 🙏
I ask you Lord to help me become more worthy of your promises this lenten season. May my faith and trust in you increase.
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Amen ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Bless you Fr. Inspirational. Thanks for making my Lenten journey something extra special.
Heavenly Father 💝 thank you for our family 💓 thank you for your mercy 💖 thank you ❣️ for loving me 💝 God you make me feel so special ❤
Amen father Mark! I will follow your reflection this on this spiritual Lenten season ! Thank you!
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I love following Fr. Toups!! He's like a shot in the arm!! Best vaccine ever! God's words!!! Thank you Fr. Toups!!!
Thank you Fr. Toups.
I look forward to Fr. MARK’s reflections every year!
Praying for a New Heart this Lent. I would like to encounter Jesus very personally, and sense the Holy Spirit. St Charlotte, Pray for Me 🙏🏼
Thanks!
I need God to change my heart and my actions. Amen
We’re looking forward to exploring & journaling with God, Ascension and Fr Toups this Lenten season as well as completing Oremus program during Holy Week 2024. Love the bird parable! ❤
Good stuff!
Thank You Father !
This is great Father!!! I do accept the invitation. I look forward to encounter Jesus this Lent. Thank you for such a good invitation.
How blessed I am that you are offering us such a beautiful invitation to guide and walk us through this journey❤ Feeling a change inside me already from watching this video I'm looking to walking with Christ and through His passion. Praying for you, your fellow priests and brothers for all that you do in your ministries...God bless and thank you❤🙏
Beautiful message, thank you Father God Bless You 🙏🙏🙏
I will sir❤🙏
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Greetings Father Mark,
Thoughts :-
-> Interactive Insights reflect with "True Devotion towards Lord Jesus Christ during Lenten Exercises helps to embrace Spiritual Gifts and Fruits of Spiritual Life in all aspects."
-> Thanks Father, Team Ascension Presents for Your Valuable Words.
With regards,
Ranjith Joseph (R.J)
I am 70+ 1 am so discouraged
I am a carer +2
One is my granson. Joseph Mary
Age 6 who has autism
He cannot speak
I get so discouraged
I accept Christs invitation
Prayers for strength & hope Philomena.🙏😊
May God provide every grace that you need for victory. Amen!
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Where is the Gospel of Palsm that goes with the series?
We pray only to God the Father, in Jesus’ name:
Jesus is not God. In Luke 11:1, his disciples said to Jesus, “Lord, teach us how to pray.” Jesus then directed them to the Father, saying “when ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven…” As Christians, we are to do and speak just as Jesus did. Jesus prayed to his Father and his God, and we are to pray to God the Father also. Jesus casted out devils, raised the dead, etc; we are to do the same. Most think Jesus is God and they will pray to Jesus as if he is God. The servant cannot be greater than he who sent him (John 13:16) and praying to Jesus as God is to blaspheme against the Father. This will lead to forfeiting your own salvation, and without repentance they will not enter God's kingdom. Nowhere in scripture does Jesus say pray to him or any man.
Jesus will show God the Father plainly to those who believe that *he came out from God* (John 16:25-31).
And this why all prayers in the Catholic Church and for Christians end with "Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever."
It is true that in Luke 11:1 Jesus teaches His Disciples to pray ... but in Luke 3:21 he also writes: "21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: 'You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.'" and then 8 chapters later writes: "11 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” 2 He said to them, 'When you pray, say: “‘Father,[a] hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.[b] 3 Give us each day our daily bread. 4 Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.[c] And lead us not into temptation.[d]’”
Likewise if you read the whole chapter of John 13 ... you will understand what Jesus is saying: "12 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16 Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them." Jesus Predicts His Betrayal follows ...
In John 16:25-31: "25 'Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. 26 In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 27 No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 28 I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.'”
Read John 1:1-51 where John explains that the "Word" is Jesus Christ who is "the Son of God" ::
"1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and that life was the Light of men. 5 And the Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. ....
"14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only Begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth. 15 John bore witness of Him and cried, saying, 'This was He of whom I spoke, ‘He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’' 16 And of His fullness have we all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. ....
32 And John bore record, saying, 'I saw the Spirit descending from Heaven like a dove, and It abode upon Him. 33 And I knew Him not. But He that sent me to baptize with water, the Same said unto me, ‘Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on Him, the Same is He that baptizes with the Holy Ghost.’ 34 And I saw and bore record that this is the Son of God.” 🙏 Could it be any clearer that "Jesus is the Son of God! and thus: GOD!"
What you saying is very similar to what a Presbyter named Arius who lived around 250 or 256 - 336 AD taught and whose teaching was responded to by the Council of Nicea. The First Council of Nicaea convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May to the end of July 325.
Thanks!